sublime

Meaning

Verb

1. Synonym of sublimate
2. Synonym of sublimate
3. To raise (someone or an intangible thing) to a state of (especially moral or spiritual) excellence; to exalt.
4. (obsolete) To cause (someone or something) to ascend; to raise (someone or something) to a high position.
5. (obsolete) To cause (juice or sap) to rise in a plant.
6. (obsolete) Especially of the sun: to heat (something) and cause vapours, etc., to rise from it.
7. (obsolete) To purify (someone) from a bad influence or from sin.
8. (obsolete) To raise (someone) to a high office or status; to dignify, to exalt.
9. (obsolete) To raise (a physical thing) to a state of excellence; to improve.
10. Synonym of sublimate
11. Synonym of sublimate
12. To become higher in quality or status; to improve.

Adj

1. High, tall, towering; also, positioned in a high place; high-up, lofty.
2. Of an aspect of art or nature: causing awe or deep respect due to its beauty or magnificence; awe-inspiring, impressive.
3. Of flight: ascending, soaring.
4. Of an idea or other thing: requiring great intellectual effort to appreciate or understand; very elevated, refined, or subtle.
5. Of language, style, or writing: expressing opinions in a grand way.
6. Of a person or their actions or qualities: intellectually, morally, or spiritually superior.
7. Of an office or status: very high; exalted; also, used as an honorific (often capitalized as Sublime) to refer to someone of high office or status, especially the Ottoman sultan; or to things associated with such a person.
8. Of a thing: consummate, perfect; (informal, loosely) excellent, marvellous, wonderful.
9. Of a person: dignified, majestic, noble.
10. Of a person: haughty, proud.
11. (informal) Complete, downright, utter.
12. (obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
13. (obsolete) Of a substance: purified, refined; hence, of the highest quality.
14. (obsolete) Of arms: lifted up, raised.
15. (obsolete) Of a muscle (especially the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle of the forearm which lies above the flexor digitorum profundus muscle): positioned above another muscle; superficial.
16. (obsolete) Of breathing: very laboured.

Noun

1. Something which is sublime; a sublimity.
2. In the form the sublime of: the highest degree; the acme, the height.
3. Chiefly preceded by the.
4. Chiefly preceded by the.
5. Chiefly preceded by the.
6. The quality or state of being sublime; sublimeness, sublimity.

Synonyms

grand

sublimate

lofty

elevated

exalted

noble

superb

high

splendid

magnificent

empyreal

majestic

divine

empyrean

excellent

supernal

stately

awe-inspiring

supreme

heroic

high-flown

high-minded

noble-minded

sublimeness

capital

outstanding

idealistic

fabulous

towering

tremendous

great

vaporize

rarefied

heavenly

rarified

reverend

marvellous

incredible

in the mood

lifted

loftiness

magisterial

majesty

marvelous

massive

mighty

monstrous

monumental

nice

oceanic

peachy

perfect

pitch

plumping

potent

pretty

proud

refined

rotund

singular

slap-up

smashing

soar

solemn

spiritual

splendiferous

splendor

splendour

stalwart

stature

stout

stupendous

swell

swingeing

tall

tallness

topmost

transcendent

unbelievable

upmost

utmost

vast

vigorous

volatilize

wonderful

make pure

gloriou

altitude

slab sided

astronomical

august

awesome

bold

celestial

cheerful

colossal

delightful

dignified

distill

elegant

eminent

enormous

epic

exceptional

exciting

exquisite

festive

galactic

gallant

gargantuan

glamor

glamour

glorious

glory

gorgeous

grandeur

groovy

height

highest

high-toned

howling

huge

humongous

immense

imposing

Hyphenated as

sub‧lime

Pronounced as (IPA)

/səˈblaɪm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sublimen

Cognate with French: sublimer

Cognate with Latin: līmen

Cognate with Catalan: sublimar

Cognate with Italian: sublimare

Cognate with Old Provençal: sublimar

Cognate with Portuguese: sublimar

Cognate with Spanish: sublimar

Cognate with French: sublime

Cognate with Catalan: sublim

Cognate with Italian: sublime

Cognate with Portuguese: sublime

Cognate with Spanish: sublime

In summary

PIE word
*upó
Partly from the following:
* From Middle English sublimen, sublime, sublyme (“to exalt, extol, glorify, honour; (alchemy) to refine (a substance) by vaporizing in a closed container; to obtain (a substance) by cooling vapour obtained through sublimation; to extract (a pure substance) from a mixture by sublimation; to sublimate (a substance)”), from Middle French sublimer, Old French sublimer (“to exalt, glorify, honour; to refine (a substance) by vaporizing in a closed container; of a substance: to undergo sublimation”) (modern French sublimer), and from its etymon Latin sublīmāre, the present active infinitive of sublimō (“to elevate, raise; to soar”) (compare Late Latin sublimō (“to elevate, raise; to exalt, glorify, honour; to sublimate, vaporize”)), from sublīmis (“elevated, raised; exalted, uplifted, sublime; elevated in style”) (from sub- (prefix meaning ‘under; up to’) + possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”) (whence Latin līmen (“threshold”) and līmus (“askew; sideways”))) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
* From sublime (adjective).
cognates
* Catalan sublimar
* Italian sublimare
* Old Occitan sublimar
* Portuguese sublimar
* Spanish sublimar